Clarification of the current status

[lasconic]

Hi,

I'm trying to use this project to generate vector tiles from microjson. I'm not sure I understand the current status of the project.
Pypi has a version 0.4.1 and link to this repository. This repository doesn't have the version 0.4.1 but https://github.com/bengtl/microjson does. Maybe, the PR #21 needs to be merged.

Then, I'm trying to generate tiles, but I can't get access to the TileHandler from outside of the module. It probably needs to be imported in init.py. I will work from the source in the meantime but it would be convenient if the module on pypi could be used to convert microjson to VT/PVB.

[bengtl]

Hi,
you are correct, the Pypi version is reflecting the unmerged branch "tileborder" from the fork, it will be merged soon, our apologies for the delay. :)
The TileHandler class is the abstract class, you should use the concrete TileWriter class, please see the example:
https://github.com/bengtl/microjson/blob/tilingborder/src/microjson/examples/tiling.py
Please let me know if you have further issues, or if you have any additional feedback, it is much appreciated!

[lasconic]

Thank you for your quick answer and for all your work on this project!

OK. I understand better the state of the project. I will try to work with the pypi version and let you know. I hope I can use the tiles with deck.gl.

[lasconic]

I might not understand something but I still can't see how to use the pypi package to create tiles. TileWriter looks good but it's not available since it's nit imported in https://github.com/bengtl/microjson/blob/tilingborder/src/microjson/__init__.py

Sorry to abuse this thread, let me know if you prefer several issues or another communication channel.
I manage to run the example from within the source code with a handcrafted microjson file. I included a big rectangle and a small rectangle and I generated json tiles. At lower zoom, the small rectangle becomes 0 but it still included in the tile. Is that expected ? In my use case, I have a few dozens "big" rectangles but millions of smaller ones. The tiles at lower zoom would contain a lot of unused data.